Variable names on the fly?

[Terry Reedy]

"e-tones.co.uk" <admin at e-tones.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi all, does python allow the creation of variable names on the fly,
more
> importantly lists.
>
> I have a stock list containing 5 elements, [0,0,0,0,0]
>
> Lets call it: list
>
> Now, via a loop, can I create list1, list2, list3 on the fly by
replicting
> the original list, eg
>
> i = 1
> for i in range(2)
>     list+i = list
>
> Whats the proper format to concatenate (sp?) variable names. I used
list+i,
> obviously this doesnt work, but what does :)

I believe you can use setattr() with globals, but you almost certainly
do not want to do this.  How do you access the runtime-defined names?
As suggested, an explicit dict others than globals is almost certainly
better.  TJR